After Chen Cuo finished speaking, his thoughts were clear, and he looked up at Zhou Youzi, seeking recognition and guidance.

Zhou Youzi didn't understand some of Chen Cuo's words, but he could understand the righteousness, and nodded: "Tempering the spiritual will and boiling the muscles and bones, which are also called in our sects, can be called cultivation and cultivation, and not the same as the ordinary, stepping into the extraordinary, it is through the refinement of life, the prince has extraordinary understanding, which is admirable." ”

He praised it from the bottom of his heart, but the doubts in his heart became more and more intense.

Chen Cuo said in his heart, what is this, you have to be like me, you have played all kinds of games in your previous life, and you are familiar with various settings, and you can quickly summarize it.

With such thoughts, Chen Cuo talked with Zhou Youzi again, and slowly summed up a few key points-

The first step in the search for the way, the extraordinary realm.

The most important thing is actually a "difference".

Life is not the same as that of ordinary people.

But it is only different, not different, because there is no complete separation, people are still people, but in the process of fading away from the mundane.

Therefore, Zhou Youzi said at the beginning that the first step is a process.

At the same time, each sect should have its own emphasis on the cultivation of life, so it will give birth to different extraordinary features.

Chen Cuo consulted Zhou Youzi on this to verify his idea.

"It is rumored that in the pre-Qin period, the world's monks mainly focused on refining qi, and there were differences in sexual cultivation and life cultivation, and they seemed to belong to two different paths of seeking......

Zhou Youzi paused while speaking, and said with a smile: "Because there is a song that says: Only cultivating life without cultivating nature, this is the first disease of cultivation, only cultivating nature and not cultivating life, a little spiritual light is useless." ”

Chen Cuo nodded, chewed and tasted with his heart, but after all, he couldn't grasp the main point, because of these, after all, they were only theoretical descriptions, superficial, and not in-depth.

In his opinion, Zhou Youzi is not a good teacher, he was a ranger in the past, and later worshiped the immortal gate, and only came into contact with his own method, and the others are mostly hearsay, and there are few examples that can be cited.

Even if it is its own method, it cannot be described in detail due to the precepts, and it only touches the surface, and there is no way to delve into it.

"Forget it, let's explore it slowly in the future......"

Thinking like this, he eliminated distracting thoughts, and seized the time to ask for the second step of seeking.

"In the second step, the poor road did not set foot in the road, and could only tell the prince some of the points he heard, those related to the secrets of the door, but he could not say much, and asked the prince to forgive me. ”

Chen Cuo nodded and said: "This is as it should be, it is a blessing to have Mr. solve the doubts, don't ask for more." ”

Zhou Youzi said solemnly: "The second step of seeking the Tao can be called 'transcendental, the root flow of the Dao', also known as the realm of the Daoji. ”

Chen Cuo nodded, memorized carefully, and tried to analyze the main points of this second step of the Daoji realm from the name.

Zhou Youzi pointed to his chest and said, "Once the first step of the extraordinary realm is complete, there is something extraordinary that is completely different from ordinary people, and it has an otherworldly foundation. ”

Chen Cuo immediately understood, and said: "For example, the heart of the Taoist is completely formed and established, and the extraordinary has gone through from scratch, and finally matured steadily, which is the first step to be complete, but it has not yet begun to be extraordinary, so what is this otherworldly standard?"

Zhou Youzi's eyes showed appreciation, and said: "The transcendent person needs to have a way forward, the so-called first step and the second step all refer to the seeker who steps to find the way, and this way is the way forward, only when he finds his own way forward and knows the direction, can he be extraordinary, otherwise even if he achieves extraordinary, he has come to an end." ”

Chen Cuo frowned and listened carefully.

Zhou Youzi emphatically said: "The point of transcendence is actually the second sentence of the second step of the eight-character mantra, the flow of the root of the Dao! This second step of seeking the Tao is to begin to establish the root of the Dao and understand the source, until the root of the Dao is stable and the source is clear, so it will be called the 'realm of the Dao foundation'." ”

The second step of seeking the Dao, the realm of the Dao Foundation, is another process?

Chen Cuo thought about it in his heart, and then asked, "What is Dao Root?"

Zhou Youzi pondered for a while, but did not answer immediately, and a cold sweat flowed down his forehead.

Unlike when explaining the first step of seeking the path, he has never set foot in the second step of seeking the path, so naturally he can't speak very thoroughly, and even some of his own places he doesn't understand.

After a while, Zhou Youzi finally said: "It's a shame to say that the poor Dao has not been able to truly comprehend the Dao Root, otherwise I am afraid that the realm has already improved a lot, but the elders and senior brothers in the Guanmen, most of them will derive a kind of supernatural power after comprehending the Dao Root, and most of them are not the same, although they are all related to the heart, but they are unique." ”

"It's complicated again. Chen Cuo frowned.

"No," Zhou Youzi shook his head, "I have also asked a few people, and I have heard from them that this supernatural power is really the appearance of the Dao Root, and the Dao Root is the appearance of their mind, related to their past experiences, or their great wishes. ”

Chen Cuo couldn't hear it clearly, and he had some vague ideas, but he didn't have a system, and he could only remember the same.

Zhou Youzi simply said: "If the realm is not reached, forcibly understanding, it is harmful and useless, this Dao root flow of the second step of seeking the Dao, or the realm of the Dao Foundation, is actually the foundation of the future cultivation, which is not only related to itself, but also involves the inheritance of the sect." ”

As he spoke, he changed his words and talked about the sect: "Guangcheng Taoism has been inherited so far, and the major sects have their own development and repair, some of which have different faces, but the core is to practice themselves, to remove the false and retain the truth, which can be called the way of cultivating the truth. ”

"The way of cultivating the truth?" Chen Cuo was stunned for a moment, and then immediately thought, "Corresponding to the way of incense?"

Zhou Youzi nodded with a smile and said: "The incense road is really another road, but it can be divided by the first step and the second step, and even the first step has many similarities, it is nothing more than that the root flow of the second step is different, and the direction of my cultivation is different. ”

Chen Cuo tasted it and sighed secretly.

He already had experience in the extraordinary realm of the first step, but the realm of the Dao Foundation in the second step was still a bit shrouded in clouds and mountains.

In the final analysis, it is Zhou Youzi who has stopped extraordinary, and coupled with the restrictions of the teacher, there is not much that can be revealed, and it is naturally vague and vague, and it is general to see flowers in the fog.

It's just that Chen Cuo considered that he was involved in evil ghosts, and that evil ghosts were involved in incense, and the best situation was that he swallowed and refined the evil ghosts, but the next direction was still to ask a few more words.

He said: "The Taoist chief said that some sects are good at gathering people's thoughts, and the best of them can make people step into the second step of seeking the Tao in one fell swoop and achieve the realm of the Dao Foundation, does this mean that once you enter the incense, the path will be fixed?"

"So to speak. ”

Chen Cuo then asked: "Once the road is determined, can it be changed?"

Zhou Youzi was stunned for a moment, then pondered, and finally said: "The patriarch in my sect once mentioned an old man, saying that he had great ambitions, and he had changed the path of seeking the way for some reason, and abolished the past with great perseverance, and then started from scratch. ”

It's all lost, and you have to start all over again!

Chen Cuo narrowed his eyes, weighed the pros and cons, and finally lost his smile, and said in his heart, I didn't even touch the edge of the first step, because of the evil ghost, contaminated with incense, I thought of changing the road?

If you can really take one step to the Dao Foundation, who can say that it is a bad thing? Don't you see this half-hearted Dao Master, who has been apprenticed for many years, and is still wandering in the first step?

Chen Cuo thought about it so far, and then he was relieved.

On the other side, Zhou Youzi's expression moved slightly, and he said, "There is something in the house." ”

Then, he raised his hand and waved, and said: "Let's talk about it with the prince and the marquis, if you still have questions, you can also discuss it when the poor road returns." With his movements, the rune paper sealed on the door and window fell, and the vermilion lines on it disappeared.

The rune paper has just fallen.

Outside the door, there was the sound of confused footsteps, followed by a hurried knock on the door, accompanied by Chen Hai's words-

"Junhou, Dao Chief, the old master is invited, there is an emergency! The person who stole the pill before has escaped!"

"What?" Chen Cuo was surprised when he heard this, and looked at Zhou Youzi.

Zhou Youzi said with a solemn face: "This matter is not small, it happens at this time, it may involve evil ghosts, and the prince and the prince will follow, and after a moment of downward adjustment, he will follow." ”

Chen Cuo hesitated for a moment and asked, "What about the evil ghost ......?"

Zhou Youzi instructed: "Don't spread the word, the more people who know, the more chaotic the hearts of the people, the more difficult it is to get rid of the evil ghosts!"

"Got it!"

Chen Cuo took a deep breath, straightened his clothes, and then left quickly, leaving Zhou Youzi alone in the room to ponder.

Damn, he sighed.

"I still have to ask for advice, think about it for myself, and it's hard to come to a conclusion. ”

As he read it, he took out a piece of rune paper, flicked his fingers, and the paper curled up, with cyan flames on the edges.

Zhou Youzi cleared his throat and spoke to this rune paper—

"The Hou of Linru County has a transparent understanding, he can write in his dreams, and he can gather incense and people to read and shape the foundation outside his body, but he can't do it, causing turmoil, and his disciples need to be helped. The three ladies of the palace are very intelligent, and there is also the support of the spirit crane, and many previous visions point to their people, so the two of them are both outstanding at the moment, and they hope that the sect will re-investigate, and they must be in front of the other families to verify who the reincarnated fairy child is!"

When the words fell, he flicked his fingers again, and the rune paper spontaneously combusted and turned into ashes.

He stood up, his brow furrowed.

"Who is the reincarnated immortal, which is true, and which is false?"